Causes of Delay for Construction Projects

Authors

Shankar C, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering ,Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore -14.
Saranya K, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering ,Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore-22.
Col Jacob G Podipara, Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering ,Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore-14.
V S Srinithee, Student
Department of Civil Engineering , Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore-14.

Abstract

Delay can be delay can be defined as the extra time required or incurred either beyond the stipulated completion date or beyond the date that the project stakeholders agreed upon for the completion of the project. The various effects of delay include time overrun, cost overrun, dispute, Total abandonment, Litigation, Arbitration. The objective this study is to review various journals on causes of delay for construction projects. Hence in this paper a number journals are summarized and suggestion for reducing delay in construction is given.